You know that movie that you see every time you go to the video store, but you just never grab it? That one movie cover that always catches your eye and you know you want to see it, but can never bring yourself to risk the money on it possibly being terrible? For me that movie was They Live. I can remember in high school (10 years ago) when there was nothing else going on we would just go to Blockbuster, spin around in the horror section and which ever movie we landed on was the movie we rented… Yeah, we rented some terrible movies, but despite how terrible they are, there are a couple I’ll never forget, like The Ice Cream Man with Clint Howard, what a terrible, terrible movie.
They Live had that movie cover that was just so intriguing that you knew you wanted to check it out because who wouldn’t love to walk around wearing some bad ass sunglasses looking at aliens all day. And actually I had no clue they were aliens until I actually sat down and watched the movie this weekend. I had always assumed they were zombies or skeletons or something closer to the horror genre not the sci-fi genre. But they were indeed aliens and the only person that can save the planet is Rowdy Roddy Piper whom you may remember from his skills in the ring with the WWF (now WWE).
Now I’m not writing this post to talk about the plot or it’s commentary on society or any of that crap, I’m writing this post to bring to light two of the greatest scenes in cinema history. The first, which you can see above, contains possibly the greatest ad-lib by an actor, ever. After beating up 2 cops, who were actually aliens, and stealing their guns, Rowdy Roddy Piper backs himself into a building thinking he’s going to be safe, only when he turns around he realizes he is in a bank holding a shotgun. As he scans the room he realizes that some of the people there are aliens and he decides to do something about it and that is when the famous line is uttered, “I have come here to chew bubble gum and kick ass, and I’m all out of bubble gum”. After he says his line he just starts blasting away at aliens in the bank spraying blood everywhere. It really is an amazing scene, and the way he delivers that line is so powerful and emotional… riiiiiight, that line is none of those things, but it is pure awesomeness. And apparently the line was completely ad-libbed by Rowdy Roddy Piper and it was a line he had written down for use in interviews during his stint at the WWF. Check after the jump for a WWF inspired fight scene that could possibly be one of the greatest fight scene ever.
